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Postcard showing a group of Arab individuals with camels. Charles C. Myers notes that the individuals are bringing a load of goods for the markets.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “A group of Bedouns [sic] as they are coming from across the desert into the city. Much of the fruit is brought from across the desert and from the manu oasis in the desert where a fine quality of fruit is found.”
The front cover of the Spring, 1989, issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal shows a laughing Theodore Roosevelt atop a horse during his 1903 visit to Yellowstone National Park. On the back is a 1910 image of Roosevelt riding a camel during his 1910 visit to Sudan during his post-presidential safari.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1989
Uncle Sam, holding a paper labeled “Political Guide,” rides on a camel being led by Puck through the “City of Silence,” past several silent sphinxes labeled “Tom Reed, Allison, McKinley, Morton, [and] Harrison.” Includes dialogue between Uncle Sam and Puck that tells how these rulers were turned to stone for being unable to answer the currency question. Caption: Scene–The City of Silence in the Land of G.O.P., ferninst the Great Political Desert. – Enter Uncle Sam with Puck, his Dragoman.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-07-31
A camel has collasped under the weight of its burden labeled “Amendments,” with Samuel J. Randall riding on top. Concerned travelers include John Kelly, Samuel J. Tilden, Henry Watterson, Sereno Payne, Morrison, Abram S. Hewitt, Grover Cleveland, Carlisle, Charles A. Dana, Thomas Bayard, Benjamin F. Butler, and Samuel S. Cox. Bones labeled “1880 Local Issue, 1876 Fraud, [and] 1872” lie in the sand nearby. A “November Simoom” is approaching in the right background. On the left, an elephant labeled “Republicans” carrying among others James G. Blaine, John A. Logan, and Roscoe Conkling, races toward an oasis. Caption: “If its back is broken, we are lost!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-03-19
German Emperor William II is about to place another bundle of rifles, swords, and ammunition labeled “The Last Straw” onto a huge stack of weapons labeled “German Armament” on the back of a camel labeled “German Capacity War Taxation.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-05-07
Riders are shown on camels, including Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt second from the right in a light-colored dress and large, veiled hat.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
Ethel and Theodore Roosevelt on camels.
At center, Andrew Carnegie donates an “inland sea” as a place to send the Navy. Surrounding vignettes include other options where it could be sent: the “North Pole,” the “Saragossa [sic] Sea,” the “Saharra [sic] Desert,” or “Salt Creek” – where the “Salt Creek Reception Committee,” comprised of such figures as “D.B. Hill, Alton B. Parker, Croker, Burton, Jerome, [and] Seth Low,” awaits its arrival. Caption: Some places to send it without giving offense.
The American Navy was in the news when this cartoon appeared, as it was at least once a year during President Roosevelt’s administration — during the annual message, today called the State of the Union address.
Roosevelt, whose first major book, published when he was 22, was the still-standard history The Naval War of 1812, never lost his interest in naval affairs or his belief in a strong navy. When he met Captain A. T. Mahan, author of The Influence Of Sea Power on World History, 1660-1783, his views were codified. Mahan had a similar, major impact on leaders in Germany, Great Britain, France, and Japan. Roosevelt’s synthesized philosophies led him to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley; and, later, to order the American Pacific Fleet under Admiral George Dewey to Manila in the Spanish-American War, and to send the Great White Fleet on a circumnavigational cruise.
A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt riding a camel while in Egypt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03
A photograph of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt riding a camel while in Egypt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03
Alton B. Parker, David B. Hill, John Sharp Williams, Arthur P. Groman, Richard Olney, and Grover Cleveland ride on a camel labeled “Reorganization” crossing the “Desert of Bryanism.” William Jennings Bryan tries to hold back the camel by the tail, and William Randolph Hearst tries to prevent Bryan from being pulled along toward an “Oasis” labeled “Sane Democracy.”
Starting around 1902, Puck assayed the Democratic field of possible presidential candidates to run against the incumbent, President Roosevelt. The pack of conservative, “Bourbon,” and “Gold” Democrats — opponents of William Jennings Bryan and a third nomination by him or a follower (such as publisher William Randolph Hearst) — usually included the same faces, reflecting the national political machinations.
Shown here are those players, with the addition of John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, Democrat leader of the United States House of Representatives. Judge Alton Brooks Parker, a dark horse significantly placed by cartoonist Pughe at the front of the camel riders, was subtly boosted by party insiders. David B. Hill was a former New York governor and senator; Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland had returned to the United States Senate and was the party’s chairman. Richard Olney, former Secretary of State, once harbored presidential ambitions himself, but at this time was futilely urging his onetime mentor, Grover Cleveland, to run for president a fourth time, for a third term.
Emily Tyler Carow describes her experiences in Egypt, including her concern about an “undercurrent of hostility” that seems to be present in the Egyptian Arab people. Carow tells Roosevelt about her conversations with Lord Evelyn Baring Cromer and his dinner guests, which have been about topics such as the British occupation of Egypt, the American occupation of Cuba and the insular possession of the Philippines, whether Roosevelt will run for president again, and the natural beauty of the desert.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-01